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I am a 40 yrs old man . I had a blow job from a girl I met in a Disco in West Africa.

She only gave me ablowb job and also put her tongue around my ***.

Then After 1 dayi started having pain in my penis. Then I went to chemist they gave me a medicine for UTI. Then it stop after 2 days. then a week after the pain start again, the went for 1week. I visited a doctor. she gave me an antibiotic then i had the Antibiotic and the pain was gone.

then 3 week later i start having pain in my chest muscle and also feel a bid tight muscle. I a bit scare.. so i went for an HIV test today.. Please tell me ..Is my odd to have HIV is high from this encounter
thank DOC

There is no debate (among experts) about the HIV risks associated with oral sex. The risk is so low that almost nobody who cares for HIV infected patients has ever had a patient believed to have been infected that way. Among experts, it's a semantic issue about using terms like "no risk" and "very low risk". There is no difference between my or Dr. Hook's use of "low risk" and other experts' "no risk".
DR. HANSFIELD

"And oral sex is basically safe sex -- completely safe with respect to HIV and although not zero risk for other STDs, the chance of infection is far lower than for unprotected vaginal or anal sex. Please educate yourself about the real risks. If you stick with oral sex and condom-protected vaginal or anal sex, you have no HIV worries and very little worry about other STDs. " DR HANSFIELD

"I am sure you can find lots of people who believe that HIV is transmitted by oral sex, but you will not find scientific data to support this unrealistic concern..." DR HOOK

in the public HIV Prevention forum of MedHelp, TEAK and the other moderators maintain that oral sex in all forms is a zero risk activity. Would you agree with this assessment?
I TOTALLY AGREE / DR GARCIA
"HIV is not spread by masturbation, through oral sex, through kissing or other casual contact." Dr. Hook
"The observation on thousands and thousands of observations is that HIV is not spread by oral sex (of any sort)." DR HOOK

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